The Top 10 Underseen and Overlooked Movies of 2025. Plus: ‘Is This Thing On?,’ ‘Ella McCay,’ and Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.

The Big Picture

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.3 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Sean and Amanda kick off the show by reacting to the brief teaser released for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s ‘Digger’ starring Tom Cruise (1:08). They then cover two new releases that they found absolutely baffling in Bradley Cooper’s ‘Is This Thing On?’ (4:17) and James L. Brooks’ ‘Ella McCay’ (23:17). Finally, they share their top ten most underseen and overlooked movies of the year (45:01). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Producers: Jack Sanders and Jacob Cornett Shopping. Streaming. Celebrating. It’s on Prime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Sean Fennacy.
0:15.8	I'm Amanda Davids.
0:16.8	This is the big picture of conversation about some weird and wild movies.
0:20.5	Today on the show, we will dig into two of the more strange new releases of 2025.
0:25.4	I'm referring to Bradley Cooper's Is This Thing On?
0:28.2	And James L. Brooks's Ella McKay, his first new film in 15 years.
0:32.5	We'll also shed some light on some smaller films from this year by sharing our top five most underseen and
0:38.3	overlooked movies. We're also going to talk about Tom Cruise's next film, which just got a teaser.
0:43.3	We'll do it all next.
0:45.6	This episode of The Big Picture is presented by Amazon Prime.
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1:08.4	Okay. It's Digger time.
1:13.5	Tom Cruise is Digger.
1:14.0	Yeah.
1:23.3	Digger is the character of these playing in the new film by Alejandro Gonzalez Inorritu coming out October 2nd, 2026 from Warner Brothers.
1:23.9	Yes.
1:30.6	We saw a teaser trailer of Tom shot from behind dancing to a guerrilla song.
1:31.4	Oh, Green World.
1:32.5	Yeah.
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